Vietnam's official commemoration of the Tet offensive of 1968 and the country's unification in 1975 is shadowed by the influential example of a courageous critic of the country's ruling system, says Sophie Quinn-Judge.

Writers, poets, and scholars among the virtual, worldwide Vietnamese imagined community are reinventing the moral foundations of the Vietnamese nation for an age of globalisation, says Sophie Quinn-Judge.

World Forum for Democracy 2017

This year, the theme is ‘populism’. Is the problem fake news or fake democracy? What media, what political parties, what politicians do we need to re-connect with citizens and make informed choices in 21st century democracy?

Civil Society Futures is a national conversation about how English civil society can flourish in a fast changing world.Come and add your voice»

Full coverage of the non-hierarchical conference held in Barcelona on 18-22 June 2017.